They delayed it till just a few days before al-Ghouta when they sent those team, and the team itself said in its report that he did everything as he wanted. There was not a single obstacle.
BASHAR AL-ASSADAs soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and that Lebanon is able to maintain stability on its own… Then, the Syrian forces will return to their homeland.
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The only one who can fight for these values like democracy and freedoms are the people of any country or any society, not the foreigners.
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Nobody knows [who they are] because when [terrorists] are dead and they are killed, they don’t have any ID.
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As we see now the American officials, they say something in the morning and they do the opposite in the evening. So, you cannot judge those people according to what they say. You cannot take them at their words, to be frank.
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This war [in Syria] is going to support Al-Qaeda and the same people that killed Americans in the 11th of September.
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That’s the problem with the American position; they think that they are the police of the world.
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Look at the results of regime change in Iraq. You can’t possibly claim that it was successful.
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This is where we can discuss the evidence [of the chemical weapons ], but he doesn’t have it. He didn’t present it because he doesn’t have it, Kerry doesn’t have it. No one in your administration has it. If they had it, they would have presented it to you as media from the first day.
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People do not only live on interests; they also live on beliefs, especially in very ideological areas. Unless you understand the ideological aspect of the region, you cannot understand what is happening.
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We’ve been dealing with this kind of terrorism since the fifties, since the Muslim Brotherhood came to Syria at that time.
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When you have terrorism, you have a war. When you have a war, you always have innocent lives that could be the victim of any war, so, we don’t have to discuss what the image in the west before discussing the image in Syria. That’s the question.
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We cannot use jihadists because it’s like shooting yourself in the foot.
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.
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Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That’s in any war, any war is a bad war.
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When they don’t have support within their country, they couldn’t continue more than – how many weeks ? – three weeks. So, the only reason we stand here for two years and a half is because we have internal support, public support.
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The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
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